Music Stories
Magpies and hope: a journey into Anastasia Kristensen’s Bestiarium
Far from the cold, hard edges and cookie-cutter music, Anastasia Kristensen is exploring anthropomorphic sound — and digging up “weird, small nests” of music. It’s just the kind of hopeful conversation we need right now. Enter this year’s Bestarium Sombre — and, if you’re lucky, catch Anastasia live. She talks to CDM about the work and that vision.
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Adam Wiltzie talks about his posthumous collaboration with Jóhann Jóhannsson
On Friendship Survival Guide, constructed from an archive of loops and sound exchanges, it’s as if Jóhann Jóhannsson is alive again. Adam Wiltzie, co-founder of Stars of the Lid and part of A Winged Victory for the Sullen, talks to us about the process, and about the perfect and fleeting personal and creative connection the two artist shared.
Dirtywave M8 has an official iOS app — a great addition to mobile tracker apps
Dirtywave M8 is already superb as hardware, whether you run their pre-made device or build your own “headless” rig. Now, it has its own official iOS app for iPhone and iPad, too, and it looks hot.
Peter Kirn - September 9, 2026
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Scales among updates to the free Ardour DAW — with tuning on the way
Peter Kirn - September 7, 2026
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iZotope is now joining founder-owned AV software house Boris FX
Peter Kirn - July 2, 2026
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You can now get eight of UA’s best plug-ins free, plus the free LUNA DAW
Peter Kirn - April 15, 2026
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